Garen vs Malphite

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How to play it

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Respect W-max early

Only respect him in the early levels if he takes Grasp and maxes W: otherwise you can freely shove the wave and ignore him.

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Your trade window

If he lets you land a full E into auto Q, it's viable to trade: but if that window isn't there, don't force it.

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Play for tempo

When you're not trading, play for good recall timers by proxying, roaming, and taking jungle camps: Malphite lets Garen scale with little pressure.

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Never try to dive Malphite under his own tower while splitpushing: you can't finish him there, so pin him in and rotate to burn his Teleport instead.

Runes

PRECISION

SORCERY

SHARDS

Spells

FLASH

IGNITE

Items

Start

Core

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16.14 Emerald+ - 53% WR - 1.5k games

Skill order

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
		Q							Q	Q		Q	Q
			W											W	W		W	W
	E			E	E		E	E
						R					R					R

MAXE→Q→W

Garen vs Malphite in Top lane is a favourable lane on patch 26.17. The one thing to respect: only respect his trades if he goes Grasp + W-max early, otherwise just shove the wave and ignore him.

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